Here is part 2 in KC Redding-Gonzalez’s excellent essay!
When we ask for names of female writers of color in the Horror genre, we (as the alleged Horror mainstream) might expect to hear two: Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison.
Yet we also expect to hear that Morrison only wrote one Horror novel (and that one so Literary that the only thing making it the least bit Horror is the ghost that animates its prose) and that Butler is really more of a science fiction writer.
Why do we do this? Why do we take certain works and decide that some anonymous Horror authority has plucked certain criteria from these writers’ stories and found them “wanting”? And is it any coincidence that this keeps happening to writers of color in our genre, and has gone retroactive in our judgement of writers from the LGBTQ community in Horror?
What exactly are we using as justification for exclusion of these writers from…
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Still sorry for having to go “technical”… but this is where a large part of our exclusion problem lies… Hopefully I was able to make it make sense! 🙂 Thanks for re-blogging!
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KC, I think you did an excellent job, and you are welcome.
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